Essay Question: Describe how loneliness affected three of the characters from 'Of Mice and Men,' and also discuss what leads up to their loneliness, and in the end, tragedy. Description: In the novel "Of Mice and Men," by John Steinbeck, loneliness is one of the key factors of the tragic final events. This essay describes the loneliness of three different characters, and what events led up to them having that loneliness. I chose to …showed first 75 words of 746 total…

…showed last 75 words of 746 total…and will soon be fired from the ranch, Crooks has developed an aversion for white people (the only people that are around), and Curley's wife is always isolated to her house and talking to only Curley. Perhaps if these three had people to talk to, the tragic events of the end of the novel would not have occurred. It seems that many of the world's problems could be solved if loneliness was not a factor.